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Habitat to hold groundbreaking ceremony for next home in Nashville

  • June 19, 2010
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Holmes County Habitat for Humanity will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the affiliate’s next home on Monday evening, June 28, at 6 p.m. The public is invited to attend. The home is being built in partnership with Roger Shamp and his two daughters, Chelsie and Lillian. The home is expected to take approximately four months to complete. The groundbreaking ceremony will be held at the home site...

Wayne County’s Biggest Small-Town Parade returns to Fredericksburg

  • June 19, 2010
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The Fredericksburg Ruritan Club is sponsoring The 19th Annual Fredericksburg Independence Day Parade and Festival. It will be held on Monday, July 5, at 11 a.m., in Fredericksburg. No entry fee or pre-registration is required to participate in the parade. Vehicle and equestrian-based parade entries may line up at the north end of town beginning at 9:30 a.m. Walking entries may line up on Karch...

Orrville Rotary Firecracker 5K to be held July 3

  • June 19, 2010
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The 12th annual Firecracker 5K will be held Saturday, July 3, in Orrville. The 5K run starts promptly at 8:30 a.m. and will be conducted by the Orrville Rotary Club. The race begins and ends at the Orrville High School parking lot, 841 N. Ella Street. The course will be clearly marked over paved roads with traffic control. An added challenge for individuals interested in both running and...

Clark to retire from FSA

  • June 19, 2010
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Judy Clark of the Holmes County office of the USDA Farm Service Agency office will retire on July 3. She has 35 years of service with the agency. Clark began her tenure working with Harold Mast, Madellin Bower and Lilda McClain. Some of her coworkers have included Loren Slutz, Bill Davenport, Janice Turner, and Pat Martin. Clark has worked along side managers Harold Mast, Carl Herman, Ken...

Graduates need every advantage to compete in today’s job market

  • June 19, 2010
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Every graduate from The University of Akron Wayne College received a present from Kay Stephan, professor emeritus of business and office technology: a copy of Executive Etiquette Power, the book she helped author. Stephan retired from full-time teaching in 2000, but still teaches courses such as Business English and Professional Communications and Presentations at Wayne College when she has...

Poison hemlock grows fast, has an aggressive spread, and a large number of seeds

  • June 19, 2010
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Poison hemlock is a weed we are getting questions about both in the field as well as along the roadsides. It is a biennial plant, meaning it takes two years to complete its life cycle. During the first year, poison hemlock resembles wild carrot, however, young leaves of wild carrot are more finely divided and its stem is grooved. Stems are mostly hairless and light gray-green with distinct...

Emergency Management Agency expands capability

  • June 19, 2010
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When a catastrophic emergency strikes, maintaining communications amongst the various emergency response organizations that serve Wayne County is critical. For the local organization tasked with assuming responsibility for coordinating the emergency response to everything from floods and tornadoes to chemical spills and terrorist attacks, a reliable source of power is vital to keeping those...

Wayne County represented at Canal Fulton Players

  • June 19, 2010
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Kristina Currans has the lead in Annie, which will be presented by the Canal Fulton Players. Kristina, 11, is from Apple Creek and will be a sixth-grader at Fredericksburg school this fall. Her father, Ben, has also been cast in the production. Two others from Wayne County, Maggie Leatherman, from Wooster, and Duane Acker, from Rittman, are in the cast of more than 30 thespians. Kristina was...

New musical in Jamboree series returns to Amish Door

  • June 19, 2010
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Amish Door Village will host the Grand Ole Jamboree, a 34west Theater Company musical, June 23-25, July 22-24 and August 26-28. Special weekday matinees will be held on June 25, July 23, and August 27. In this third installment of the Jamboree musicals, the Atkins family travels to the county fair for a blue-ribbon, gospel music radio broadcast. With unforgettable tunes ranging from vintage...

SPORTS | 2010-06-19

  • June 19, 2010
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